Fan’s saga as Auld Enemy get together ends in arrest

A jet-lagged Tayside man’s two-day booze bender around June’s Scotland-England World Cup qualifier ended in the cells after a homophobic rant at police.

Steven Meek’s return to Scotland from Asia to meet up with pals for the game turned into a catalogue of catastrophe when he got stranded in Montrose after another friend was arrested for drink-driving on their way back from Aberdeen.

Drunken Meek was caught climbing on scaffolding at a local garage, leading to his arrest and the barrage of unsavoury insults delivered at the scene and in the back of a police car en route to the charge bar.

Joiner Meek, 27, now of Old Dalkieth Road in Edinburgh, but formerly Harrison Road in Dundee, admitted behaving in a threatening manner and making derogatory remarks aggravated by prejudice relating to sexual orientation on June 12.

His solicitor said: “He wishes to publicly apologise for his conduct and wishes to give an assurance that he will not be making any repetition of it.

“He spent a night in the cells for his troubles.”

Sheriff Jillian MartinBrown fined Meek £335, reduced from £500 in light of his early guilty plea to the offence.